Elevate Utah Podcast

If you’ve been following us for a while, you probably have a vague sense of who we are. You’ve seen our faces. You’ve heard our takes. You might have even trusted us enough to buy the same bottle of vodka we grabbed at the Sugar House liquor store — which, for the record, is extremely flattering and also slightly alarming, because you have absolutely no reason to trust our taste in vodka. And sinc...

Derek Kitchen was one of the most compelling potential candidates in Utah’s new congressional district. Now he is the first candidate to officially step away from the race. In this episode, we sit down with Derek for a candid conversation about why he made the decision to step away, what he saw happening inside the race, and what most people get wrong about how these decisions are actually made. W...

Session is over. The legislators have gone home. Sine Die. And so we are HERE to tell you everything that actually happened — which has almost nothing to do with policy. This week we’re skipping the bill-by-bill breakdown (that’s coming in the Substack, don’t worry) and going straight to the drama. Is this journalism? Debatable. Is it accurate? Allegedly. Did it happen? Our sources say yes. Here i...

Okay, so. This is our first attempt at a podcast. They say boys can do it, so here we are. But please accept our sincerest apologies for any sound imperfections and know that we are just two girls who care very deeply about Utah politics and very little about technology. We’re learning. Be gentle with us. What we can promise you is that the content is worth it because this week we went down a rabb...